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I work in retail and it annoys me when people say we complain a lot. While most people get two weeks off at Christmas/new year period, we only have one or two days off. Some people seem to have such a sense of entitlement.

Worse than a terrible manager is one of your employees who think and act like they are a terrible manager

Funny thing is. My most hated thing about retail is also my favorite. Customers.

I worked the overnight shift at Wal-Mart for two years (2008-2010), here's my list: 1. Racism and preferential treatment 2. Customers reading my name off my badge and using it to threaten me 3. Timed tasks 4. Associates on different shifts criticizing me for doing what I was directed to do 5. Management witch hunting full time associates because of benefit eligibility

One night after working a night shift at a bar, I was sexually assaulted at a Walmart by a group of 4 drunk, young men, and a wonderful Walmart associate came to my rescue. He got fired for helping me, so I helped get him a job as a bouncer at my bar. WalMart doesn't let their associates behave like humans! Insane!

7:43 I was part of the Sephora cult for 8 years. We called them "clients," which I always found amusing because it implies a level of class that Sephora customers do not have.

My top 5, as a night worker; 1. Management 2. Lack of hours available 3. When nights off are split, you can't properly enjoy a night off 4. Unrelated training we have to do, we don't deal with customers, why do we have to do modules related to customer service? 5. Not been able to enjoy a social life properly.

I quit as soon as I got a five year pin, I wouldn't wish retail on anyone, feel like I wasted all five of those years Just yet another drop in the bucket of completely unaddressed causes of mental issues in America

I got a GameStop ad while watching this video... I feel violated.

Eight years and the depression is real. Don't know if I can ever escape.

Worked at walmart for 3 years and all of your points are spot on. Most miserable time of my life. Got a much better job and happier now

When I worked at WalMart there were multiple times my name was just missing from the schedule even though I was full time. Not even that I had no hours just missing all together. I'd have to find a manager to correct it, then also had to have them manually override it when I clocked in because I technically wasn't scheduled One week it happened I took Friday, Saturday and Sunday off just because "Why not?" Managers asked what happened and I explained it to them. That was the last time it happened

Things I hate about retail(No Particular order) 1. Inventory (My Worse) 2. Clueless customers 3. That one guy you don't like 4. sweeping floors

When I worked for Mobil Oil as a gas station attendant I had to wear a tie. Why would a gas station cashier wear a tie? It's about image and respect. Everyone from the lowest starting level employee to the store manager wore a tie and it was impossible to tell who was in charge without looking at the name tag. The psychological impact is that customers treated us the same way they would treat a manager because we were dressed in a way that commanded respect and it also prompted employees to try a little harder because they were dressed nicely and it put them into a mindset to think of their job a little more seriously.

That’s how I felt at my first job when I was barely out of high school working at Papa John’s. I remember one of my managers had this like 10 year pin and I said damn if I had that I would blow my brains out.

1- the people 2- the people 3- the people 4-the people 5- the holier than thou managers

I have to tell you, I am listening to you, nodding my head, realizing that I’m not the only one dealing with this stuff. Thank you for posting this.

If anything good comes out of this quarantine, I don’t have to go to my work 😖

Fanta is the Garfield of millenial youtubers. "Sundays! I hate Sundays especially when they are Sundays!"

video idea: weird things you've seen in the breakroom ridiculous rumors you've heard among the employees

hey fanta! ive never worked in retail but your videos have really opened my eyes to the hell that is working retail. your stories are entertaining and i love listening to your rants. im glad that you got out of there. as for video ideas, maybe you can talk more about work in non-retail environments? i remember you making a video about the chinese restaurant and i would like to hear more about it. or talk more about specific terrible customers/managers youve had. keep up the good work :)

I've always made jokes that if you work at a job that gives you milestone badges, you're just in the girlscouts.

fanta, your retail rants are so cathartic coming from a former retail employee. never stop doing these. :^)

I can understand lots of irritating things with retail work!

For me working at Walmart there was always these: Management favoritism where they would stand around and talk no matter how busy we were and would get mad at us for not working faster. My managers were racist and the last straw for me was when they yelled at me in front of a bunch of employees and laughed in my face. It hurt me so much that i was in the parking lot crying for an hour and was afraid to go home cuz i thought my parents would be mad

I’ve wasted enough years of my life working in a supermarket with an idiot for a boss. It’s literally hell now, having to go to work dealing with potential virus carriers 8-9 hours a day. And even now they don’t pay more when we risk our lives going to work.

I once had a customer flip out at me because the debit card machine stopped working. They then accused me of deliberately trying to ruin their day!

Being treated like garbage for not having an item in stock irritated me to no avail when working at Walmart

I didn't work walmart but I did work at one of the main grocery chains near me so fairly similar customer base and way things worked, everything said in this video brings me back to the misery of that job. I'm kinda glad I had left back in september and got new jobs (especially now, s/o to all the grocery workers rn and all my old coworkers still there during this pandemic) but everyday I'd just leave crying after awhile, and what finally made me quit was my brother being in the hospital for 4 months and nearly dying several times and being completely isolated from my family during that, my managers would scream at me for not doing enough when I was barely functioning as is and when I told them I needed to take another day off my avaliability (if I didn't have the two days I had set they would've made me work 7 days a week) due to both of my brothers having a liver transplant and I needed to be around, the managers again screamed at me and considered me lazy and that was the final nail in the coffin, I left as soon as I secured another job

1. Customers 2. Customers 3. Customers 4. Customers 5. Customers!!!

Video Idea: If you do another video on GameStop, you should put GameStop plastic bags on your hands and do the entire video with those plastic bags on your hands

At the store I used to work at, we were constantly understaffed. That was my biggest problem with working there. Constantly understaffed, constant theft, randomly cutting hours (had several shifts where they told me to go home an hour after starting), and when we did have employees, most of them quit. I don’t blame them but it circles back to the understaffed problem. Which then led to dread. Honestly the best part about the store was one of my coworkers and some of the vendors who were awesome guys. Other than that, the store was just a pachinko machine of stress for me lol

A lot of points really resonated with me, especially the mental health parts. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure I'd still be here if I truly had no way out of retail, especially with what's going on now. I'm just grateful that my current job came when it did, and I've been happier than I've been in a long time.

1) bipolar supervisor, 2) pay, 3)inflated job expectations.

These past few days have been my days off from my job in retail. I have to go back to work in the morning, and the level of dread I feel over this is so far off the charts it's unreal.

I'm pretty sensitive to noises, so annoying music and machines would be something high on my list.

You're the best ranter in the world! I thought I was. Nope! Love your videos😍

Exactly. I am an accountant. I do some borrrrring, dry, really mind numbing work, but sometimes I still have fun with it because my managers don't suck.

When I worked at Target I became depressed within a month.

Anybody should hate working in retail perod!

This video touch home so hard. And the things that you mentioned above, are worst when you work for fast food. Places like Walmart are suppose to be a set up but their more like a baby step towards better.

That Oblivion music hit differently

God damn I felt the same way. Working midnights at wallmart doing stock just to avoid customer interaction. And the call center job, customer service is something that needs to just be phased out. Everything sucks, just give me an online store and a delivery boy.

1. The Pay 2. The Customers 3. The Customers!!! 4. THE CUSTOMERES!!!!!!!!! 5. THE F*CKING CUSTOMERS!!!!!!!!

You're right Fanta. The managers of the number one thing I also hate. They we're incompetent and lacked leadership skills. I even had a store manager that didn't speak English well and couldn't text at all. Can you imagine that??

That Oblivion reference made me wanna go play Oblivion again. One of my favorite games ever made

Completely agree about the managers and customers portion of the video. I remember when I first worked at Walmart, there were a few managers that i could tell “this person is not friendly” - what I mean by this is I made the mistake of offering to do overtime, but when I came on my day off, the managers lied that they didn’t need anyone. (Keep in mind I’m still new and I’m just trying to be a good worker) - I found out they lied because of my coworkers. 🙄 And I also noticed they didn’t like me from the moment I walked in the door. Constantly accusing me of talking to customers too much about work related problems. Everytime these particular managers worked, I felt terrified. Like these guys had a threatening aura around them constantly.

It's hard for me to watch these videos because I still work in retail and I actually like my job. The customers definitely suck sometimes but the people I work with are pretty cool and we all basically respect each other.

Can't wait to share my ups and downs. I took a risk taking a sales job and left wallmart with little notice, call center work, network marketing. What a nightmare.

New video idea: Working at Walmart while in highschool/college. I remember getting out of school at 3 and going straight to Walmart until 11 pm only to get home and remember I have homework for the next day. This happened to so many people at my highschool who needed a job. I remember telling the managers that I can't work 8 hour shifts on weekdays and they wouldn't listen at all. The worst slap on the face was when I learned that working Black Friday was not only mandatory, but they give a discount on some items instead of extra pay (Black Friday started on Thanksgiving, so you'd think extra pay would be the default but nope). I quit shortly after this and it was the best decision I ever made.

I work for good Will and for the most part I like working there great managers and a real sense of family with with my coworkers but I would have to say is the days when we get slammed with donations and people make common about how busy we are it's still drop off their Trailer Load full of junk. Keep in mind we got four stores that are not that far away from me and it never crosses their mind drop a little bit off here and there sis so the workload wouldn't be that bad

At 5:17 , that's the reason a lot of people don't want to get a job anymore and would rather stay home and play video games and watch TV all day and try to collect money in "other ways". After the 100th customer in a row that comes in and looks down upon workers, some workers can't take that crap anymore and would rather quit and never work at a job like that ever again and do something else for their own personal sanity.

1. Interaction 2. Minimum wage/ Employees acting like managers 3. The Inconvenience of Scheduling/Using me to work more bc of lack of staff 4. Customers 5. Credit Card Promotion

I’ve never been able to work a regular job. I have too much anxiety around people and will have constant panic attacks, etc. That’s why I try to treat people in retail with human decency (like everyone should treat other people). THEY have a job to do and being mean to them doesn’t help fix anything or get stuff done quicker. Hearing in these videos how unemployed people are being dicks to retail workers for working in retail is embarrassing!

I even hate bad customers and the corporate office.

Me, an essential retail worker: *subscribed last night* FANTAVISION: *Posts* Me *seeing the title* : HERE WE FUCKING GOOOOOO

I'm so glad I have me a Security License. I couldn't keep working at Walmart anymore and dropped a lot of money, putting me in bad debt for a bit, but now I have a job I love, even if I do make a little over what Walmart pays.

Good work trooper, keep up the fire. FOR THE REPUBLIC

Shout out to my fellow retail slav..I mean hard workers. Also yes with these points, my gods they hit home hard! Especially with #4 and it is so true...it is near impossible to get full tome these days because hardly any if NO corporate retail company is going FT hours. Everyone even mid level workers are PT, at my work unless you're a manager you're stuck with PT. And the hours are all..over the place. Additional note...corporate is a huge pain that doesn't get how people are people...

Video idea: positive experiences with customers. To you Fanta and everyone in the comments I say stay safe and healthy during this difficult time, and I hope that brighter days are ahead.

My top 5 things I hate about retail: 1. hour cuts 2. management pulls your help to do something else that's not near as necessary as putting out freight 3. lazy customers who won't even try to look for something first before they ask an associate where something is 4. customers that will ask another associate after they have already been truthfully told that the item(s) they need are out of stock 5. district/regional managers who are not qualified to be in charge of their respective areas

I just seen your channel this year. I can relate. The best part is that you opened a beer in the beginning of this video. Im not gonna lie i always needed a beer after work lol

My 5 top things are: Ridiculous Low wage Few hours Random Schedule Uneducated- stupid costumers 0 benefits

Can’t believe I wasn’t subscribed. Your videos always pop up I thought I was

Only worked unloading/ random tasks around the store . Didn’t really dislike most of the managers, but most of them had no clue how to unload a truck. So sweating, tired and dirty after a stressful truck load where nothing seemed to go right and having a manager coming out back and giving us shit for not unloading fast enough, wearing their clean shirts with a tie, was frustrating. I once snapped at one of the more reasonable managers and they de-escalated the situation, I apologized for my attitude and they were very understanding. There was one manager I actually respected , he came off a bit angry at times, but he talked to us like people, not just managers. And he learned how to adjust his demeanour when talking to me, and made two sincere apologies for getting angry at us, because he was frustrated with managers giving him shit. Dude is now regional manager for Walmart in Nova Scotia.

So true! I had luck with managers but OMG the terrible costumers (I work in high-end cosmetics so they can be something) and the corporate is getting worse and worse. Now I finally had enough - going back to school at almost 40 so I can leave retail...so sad.

I worked for Walmart for about 6 months. One day the store manager came to me and told me to push carts. I told him My job description didn't have cart pusher in it. He lowered my hours from the 40 to 16. I left and never went back. I drive a c300 Mercedes now. Bad management.

I never ever want to work retail 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

The schedule, the pay, favoritism, lack of communication, and short breaks

See, me, I don't mind if a work is fun or not. Gotta put food on the table. The only time I'll change jobs is when a company screws with my pay. Like my previous job, one day that my check didn't go through (they didn't wanna do direct deposit) I refused to show up. And if that company could've gotten away without sick hours, they would've. They even started to refuse to pay us if we wanna take time off because "sick hours are only if you're sick or have an emergency" and when I was sick with a flu in December, they said no when I called in sick.. So I quit and moved on to a better paying job.

Holy $%#^ man, I totally know where you're coming from about Sundays. I can usually hold that feeling off until about noon (usually by going out for a jog at a nearby nature preserve or otherwise going out and doing something in a distracting environment) but by the time I finish lunch the feeling of dread is always creeping in.

15:16 Laughed my ass off!

Love your videos thank you always make my day God bless y’all

I work at a clothes store and we had some girl who looked to be 19 or something come in with her mum. The whole time we’d be friendly, ask if they need a hand or anything, and this girl just scowled at us or openly ignored us. The mum said no when the girl asked to by some stupid accessory along with the other clothes, and she literally flared at her mother like she was evil incarnate. It pissed me off how she was so rude to us just for working in retail, meanwhile her own mother was still paying for her clothes. Like sorry I have a job and have to pay my own bills.

This channel is an absolute godsend

I'm from Portugal and here is my top list of what i endured here in retail: -maximum work at inhuman paces for minimum wage -constant pressure and bullying into doing unpaid overtime -being called on off days and even in the middle of vacation to go to work -treated like garbage with verbal abuse and threats by both co-workers/management and costumers -last minute schedule changes with absolutely no respect for our time. -the company gets to choose when you can go in vacation and you don't have a say in the matter

3 weeks since I spoke here, right now the quarantine is a shit show where I work at, here in South Portugal, I mean people get into arguments while waiting in line at the supermarket where I'm working, arguments over whether you should or should not use a damn mask, arguments over who was the first standing in line and so on. This is the 2nd week I'm working 2 shifts straight every day while half of my colleagues are in Quarantine, so next week it's my turn, 15 days at home, this is a system so that half of us are in Quarantine and half working

one of the realest videos i ever seen, every point was spot on

I thought i should work at Walmart but now i seen your videos on retail now i am not

Thanks for working at walmart so I don't have to

I work in a retail store that attracts a unusual amount of upper middle class customers. Karen's favorite shop... the customers are beyond ridiculous. The more you do, the more they expect, so you could almost never impress them, nor get any appreciation. As the best constantly becomes the bear minimum, all while being treated on par with walmart employees. And who are the nicest? Generally the rich customers, particularly first generation wealth. Some of them worked similar jobs, and they understand how most start at the bottom first. Usually good tips for exceptional service.

I hate retail so much. I am so thankful for the quarantine so I don't have to be in that hell hole

Well said sir! Preach! I can totally relate.

Having days off during the middle of the work week gives me anxiety bc it feels like I still have to be there.

I gotta figure it what's wrong with the people who hate working at Walmart. It's like, what crazy universe do I love in where my store was great Oh yeah my top five, in no particular order 1. Boomer customers. Whiny, entitled, hateful 2. Zoning. So boring 3. Getting called to the front and being ignored by CSMs. Every time without fail us non cashiers were refused breaks, lunches, etc. The only times I hit my five were because of CSMs. I got literally screamed at for turning my light off by a CSM. 4. Kayaks. Somehow it always ended up being me and one particular ASM in charge of building the kayak Corral's with pallets 5. Southeast asians in the break room microwaving fish and having loud video calls

i hate retail store, I thought I had faith in it that is is a lighter job that it is a lighter job compared to a trade job like engineering. But I was wrong!.. I am getting old, and my trade job that is so physical is leading me into health issues that my body cannot handle it someday, so I decided to do retail.. BUT NEVER I KNEW IT WAS WORST THAN I THOUGHT BASED ON THE TOP TWO THINGS YOU MENTION, 1) THE MANAGERS AND ABOVE MANAGERS WHO MAKES DUMB RULES JUST FOR THE SAKE TO REACH THEIR SALES TARGET, AND SECOND THE RANDOM VARIABLE-A-HOWLES CUSTOMERS WHO ALWAYS THINK "CUSTOMERS IS ALWAYS RIGHT"... i HATE RETAIL.. I AM PLANNING TO GET THE ** OUT OF THERE! BY FINDING A JOB THAT WILL NOT DAMAGE MY MENTAL, EMOTIONAL, AND PHYSICAL CONDITIONS.

I've totally & completely understand you about doing a closing & opening shift back to back & every thing in this video

I worked for Walmart for 11 years. Worked for gamestop as a seasonal. Now work at home depot. I feel that existential dread every day. And idk how I can get out of this perpetual nightmare. 😑

Successful employees are intrinsically motivated to do their jobs. It might not be "fun" to rebuild a display or try to finish doing inventory as quickly as possible or whatever, but it can be satisfying work. Or...management can make every minute in the store a slog. This sounds stupid, but I used to LOVE getting the most dreaded job in Ross Dress for Less: Dressing room duty. Everyone hated it because it was super active, physically challenging and no real down time between customers. I loved it because I got to see merchandise that I never would have otherwise. I built and entire designer wardrobe by setting aside merchandise to purchase on my break/end of shift (I usually worked openings, rarely closed the store). Most of those designer clothes were less than $5 too! Talk about being motivated to do your job (especially if you love to dress in fancy clothes on the cheap!) Otherwise, the job was pretty miserable. The store assumed all the employees were stealing from them all the time. It was ridiculous, but I got some really nice clothes out of the deal. LOL!

The schedule/rota was a royal pain when I worked at Little Chef many moons ago. After cleaning up, you could be there until almost 11pm at night, and then still have to come in for 7am the next day. They'd alternate the shifts so you'd finish at 3pm then, and not work again until 2pm. However, when you have that evening free, you're bloody knackered from all that time you'd spent in work! It's not ideal.

One of mine is the posters about special holidays like Juneteenth that corporate puts on the walls in the break room. Dude, this is Home Depot, not a university campus. I obviously support people learning about history and people owning it. But come on, we are in the break room trying to get away from the work environment. We're not going to talk about sl Ocial history.

Surprised about the KZfaq revenue plummeting. Thought with everyone having to stay home, and watching KZfaq, it would be going through the roof these days. Keep the great content coming!

Wal-Mart/Sam’s Club: “Proud Associate/ Happy to help” Me: *Screaming Internally* These point sum up almost everything that I hated when I worked for Wal-Mart. Also, I would added a sixth point of the god damn COS or Supervisors that had a hard on for you and treating you like absolute dog-sh*t. For me, the two COS’ that we had were actively going after me for the dumbest sh*t. We were supposed to switch door after every two hours or breaks, but they would just keep me on the exit door, which we had to use these god damn handhelds to scan receipts, that never worked. Not only that, but the management wouldn’t do anything about it after I told them about it. To add onto it was that they’d start b*tching at me for when I would have a line of people because of handheld not working. It got to the point where the stress of the management being useless, the COS’ constant borderline harassment towards me, customers being absolute jack*sses, and policy changes on an almost weekly basis, that I would end up blasting music so I could rant about it on my way home, in my car, on a nightly basis. I would end up thinking about buying alcohol, or buying a pack of smokes, every night before I got home, just calm my nerves down. Ironically, the last day I worked there, I was getting ready to quit when I was left go. Probably the best thing to have happened to me when I was there, in my opinion. Also, I was thinking about writing a book based on my personal experiences of working for that company.

Yeah those cooperate puppets I couldnt stand them hovering over my shoulders telling me what I'm doing wrong they spend like 15 mins telling me how to do my job then go back home to their big as mansion

I have been working at Wal-Mart for 3 months going on 4 and I am a Cap 2 associate and they were thinking of letting me go because I wasn't going the pase of what they needed. Thanks to my supervisor she backed me up stating that I follow instructions and that I work hard and we can't let go of hardworkers like that. They're switching me to lawn and garden hopefully it's not a toxic experience I had with Cap 2. One time this manager that nobody likes told everyone to go stock pallets while I and I alone zone for the rest of the 2 hours left. I only did my aisles alone even though she wanted me to do everyone else's aisles which is not my responsibility but theirs. For some who don't know it's a rule for us to start zoning our aisles at 9. That's why I only did my aisles

Overworked Especially when understaffed

8:28 ahh the old “clopen” (close -open) when I worked retail I would specifically tell my managers I’m not willing or available to do that..

I worked at big 5 for 6 months. Hands down the most boring and emotionally draining job I had. No benefits, false promises made by management, entitled customers, very little hours and the GM wouldn't even let us have our phones in our pockets while we were working. Like dude, what if there was an emergency or what if we're expecting an important call/email? Don't ever work in retail unless you plan to move up to management. There's always a better job that you can find. I work in a warehouse now and it's honestly great. The pay is good, no customers to deal with, the environment is supportive and I finally have benefits. Retail is a complete waste of time and a total insult to your skills

You are so right about that Saturday feeling. I have to book a holiday for that shit